Category Archives: Windows knowhow

Howto do some things in Windows

Windows: Change application for a file extension from command line

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Windows has two command line utilities to alter the application associated with a file extension.
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Powershell: Convert Hex to Int type

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short post today. Topic: convert a hex string to an integer type.
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Windows: Permit a limited user to run a schedule task defined by an Administrator

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This post is developed by the trial and error principle 😉 . Here you can find some background.

On Windows a User with just “normal” user rights cannot see and execute Tasks created from User with Administrator permissions. There are dozed of sites that describes that the permissions of an task can be changed by setting the filesystems rights in C:\Windows\System32\Tasks. But this won’t work since some early Versions of Windows 10 (IMHO 1607).
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Windows: Adobe flash player files have an outdated version

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since Windows 8/Server 2012 Microsoft delivers the Adobe Flash Player with it Operating System.
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Windows: Switch back to Restore Point

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when you want list all restore points or you to switch back to a system restore point use the Windows System Restore Point GUI.

Start it with

C:> rstrui.exe

It shows you a Window where you can switch back to the latest restore point

or it gets you a list from all available restore points.

Michael